The AI now have the chance to spawn with a wide selection of hair and eye colours for variety. Player customization is still not complete and more and more content will be added as it is made, but for now there are new beard and hairstyles for both the player and AI. # New customization parts for player an AI Slashing or piercing the neck deep enough has always been fatal in B&S now you can enjoy some visual effects when you manage to do it. Now with a mix of ragdolls and animations, we are happy to say it is better than ever before! It allowed for the player to get that short window to complete a cool John Wick type execution, rather than a 100% pure ragdoll experience. # Death animations (similar to U7 but new and enhanced)ĭeath animations were noticeably missing from U8 this is what gave the combat that visceral and gritty feel that many people missed since U7. If you are suffering performance issues in U9 that are not simply spec related, be sure you have removed your mods and checked the pinned topics in Steam Discussions 'Issues and Troubleshooting' for some solutions.Ĭharacter decals has been completely reworked, they are now optimized, consume way less memory and look better!ĭecals are not limited to skin and wounds and you will now see dents when you hit plate armor.Īt last decals now support emissive and overtime effect, perfect for fire and burning. The lag spike on spawn issue that plagued U8 has been eliminated thanks to remaking the character system, so the game should be running dramatically better than it was in U8, with performance more in line or better than U7. This is the big one and the whole reason for the lengthy past beta. If you have not been following the beta period and are coming straight from U8.3, you will be in for quite a surprise! Here are some of the more major features included in this update: And because I know people will ask - mods should not have broken between 8.4 beta 8 / beta 9 when upgrading to U9.

This will be the live version until the next big update, and as such this should be a good stable version for long term mod reliability (ie mods made for this version won't break as often as they would in betas). Instead of a trying to figure out if a mod works with U8.X beta XYZ, the latest version will now simply u9. This name change should also help clear up a lot of modding confusion going forward about what mods work with what version. We decided to rename it as U9 and ripple the other updates because what was intended to be a small incremental patch ended up being huge amount of additions, and the difference between 8.4 and 8.3 was so massively significant that it really seemed like its own update. Hello mates! If you are wondering what U9 is, it is essentially the 8.4 beta as a now completed and stable version.

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